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The greatest internet cartoon ever.

HOMESTAR RUNNER is a long-running internet series created by Mike and Matt Chapman in 2000. The series revolved around two interesting individuals - the titular Homestar, an idiotic but lovable athlete of sorts, and Strong Bad, the masked troublemaker who always wants to outwit Homestar in various ways.

It was 2003 - I was still in elementary school...one day, my next door neighbor told me about this crazy site and soon these images starting forming in my head - the main hero was a white guy with no arms? What was this insanity?! So eventually I visited the site....and I was an immediate fan. While my neighbor eventually lost interest in the site, I would go on to watch every new cartoon and play every new game for the next several years. Even back then, when I didn't get all the jokes and sly references to modern pop culture, I was always open to new cartoons, and this one caught my attention. While the animation is nothing special, the ingenious writing and random wordplay makes up for it. And when you do get the references they throw at you, the show can be funny...REALLY funny. I think what made it work was that the creators had no stuck-up executives supervising their work and editing out anything inappropriate - it was just the two brothers and the occasional collaborator. These guys could do whatever they want, and they never ran out of steam. This was a show that managed to get better and better as the years progressed.

But sadly, things changed. Around 2009, when I was nearing the end of high school, updates to the site were becoming less and less frequent. No cartoons, no games, nothing. After high school, there were a couple of new cartoons here and there, but then 2010 hit, and since then, the site hasn't put anything new. From what I hear, the creators of the show have gone on to work for children's television, including Nick Jr's YO GABBA GABBA, Disney's GRAVITY FALLS, and so on. There was talk of a new update to the site...several years ago, but nothing since then.

While the return of this great cartoon seems highly unlikely now, I can still safely say that HOMESTAR RUNNER is a major influence for me, for it's non-sequitur humour and wordplay. This is one of the few cartoons from my childhood that I can go back to and still laugh at.

Seriously.

EDIT: I just found out that HOMESTAR RUNNER has finally been updated with a new cartoon! And yes, it was pure genius, it's like the Brothers Chaps never left! This could possibly be the greatest April Fool's Day of all time. Let's hope we get some more cartoons in the future!

Description
The greatest internet cartoon ever.

HOMESTAR RUNNER is a long-running internet series created by Mike and Matt Chapman in 2000. The series revolved around two interesting individuals - the titular Homestar, an idiotic but lovable athlete of sorts, and Strong Bad, the masked troublemaker who always wants to outwit Homestar in various ways.

It was 2003 - I was still in elementary school...one day, my next door neighbor told me about this crazy site and soon these images starting forming in my head - the main hero was a white guy with no arms? What was this insanity?! So eventually I visited the site....and I was an immediate fan. While my neighbor eventually lost interest in the site, I would go on to watch every new cartoon and play every new game for the next several years. Even back then, when I didn't get all the jokes and sly references to modern pop culture, I was always open to new cartoons, and this one caught my attention. While the animation is nothing special, the ingenious writing and random wordplay makes up for it. And when you do get the references they throw at you, the show can be funny...REALLY funny. I think what made it work was that the creators had no stuck-up executives supervising their work and editing out anything inappropriate - it was just the two brothers and the occasional collaborator. These guys could do whatever they want, and they never ran out of steam. This was a show that managed to get better and better as the years progressed.

But sadly, things changed. Around 2009, when I was nearing the end of high school, updates to the site were becoming less and less frequent. No cartoons, no games, nothing. After high school, there were a couple of new cartoons here and there, but then 2010 hit, and since then, the site hasn't put anything new. From what I hear, the creators of the show have gone on to work for children's television, including Nick Jr's YO GABBA GABBA, Disney's GRAVITY FALLS, and so on. There was talk of a new update to the site...several years ago, but nothing since then.

While the return of this great cartoon seems highly unlikely now, I can still safely say that HOMESTAR RUNNER is a major influence for me, for it's non-sequitur humour and wordplay. This is one of the few cartoons from my childhood that I can go back to and still laugh at.

Seriously.

EDIT: I just found out that HOMESTAR RUNNER has finally been updated with a new cartoon! And yes, it was pure genius, it's like the Brothers Chaps never left! This could possibly be the greatest April Fool's Day of all time. Let's hope we get some more cartoons in the future!